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BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves to be practising BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture often…

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B&D, B/D, or BD
Bondage and discipline
Bottom/submissive
Partner who receives or is controlled
D&s, D/s, or Ds
Dominance and submission
S&M, S/M, or SM
Sadism and masochism
Switch
Switches between roles
Top/dominant
Partner who performs or controls the activity

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BDSM

Nodes402
Edges401
Triples473
Avg. degree2
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BDSM

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related to Art · 35
BDSM → Also Robert Mapplethorpe, Araki Nobuyoshi, Baroness Marion Lambert, Bettie Page, Bruno Zach, Comic, Eric Kroll, Eric Stanton, Guido Crepax, Gwendoline, Hajime Sorayama, Histoire, In, Irving Klaw, Japanese, John Willie, Justine, Land, Leopold, Marquis
related to Film and music · 31
BDSM → BDSM-themed, Body, Bollywood’s, Christina Aguilera's, Evidence, Fifty Shades, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed, From, Furs, Graphic Sexual Horror, Grey, In, Insex, Kink, Madonna, NAVI, Not Myself Tonight, Picture Perfect, Raaz
related to Leather movement · 28
BDSM → AIDS, BDSM-culture, BDSM-subculture, By, Chicago, Coming, Drummer Contest, In, Larry Townsend, Leather, Leather Contest, Leatherman's Handbook, Los Angeles, Many, Members, Mr, Much, New Guard, New York, Post-war
related to Etymology · 27
BDSM → Although, Christianity, Gebiet, Heinrich Kaan, In, Krafft-Ebing, Leopold, Marquis, Neue Forschungen, New, On, Psychopathia, Psychopathia Sexualis, Psychopathy, Richard, Ruthenian, Sacher-Masoch, Sade, Sade's, Sadism
related to Sociological research · 23
BDSM → According, At, Aus Leiden Freuden, During, Finally, Fritz Morgenthaler, From, Gesellschaft, He, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, In, Masochismus, Moser, Moser's, Perversion, Problems, Psychotherapist Charles Moser, The, The Swiss
related to Theater · 23
BDSM → Ach, Although, Anna Schwemmer, Austria, Austrian, Berlin, Exemplifying, German, Germany, Günter Bubbnik, Heinrich Herkie, Hilda, Hilde, It, Jean Genet's, Körper, Miriam Goldschmidt, Oh, Peter Kern, The
related to Origins · 19
BDSM → Akkadian, Artemis Orthia, BC, Cult, Cuneiform, During, Ebih, Here, Hymn, III, In, Inanna, Ishtar, Olympic, Orthia, Pausanius, Practices, Sparta, These
related to Gender differences in research · 18
BDSM → Andrea Duarte Silva, Assen, Elbert, Giebel, Hébert, In, Moran, Schauer, Schawohl, Several, Similarly, They, This, Weaver, Weierstall, Weierstall1, Wismeijer, Women
related to history · 16
BDSM → According, APA’s, Beginning, DSM, DSM-II, DSM-IV-TR, Kolmes, Mental, Psychiatry, Sadism, Sexual Masochism, Sexual Sadism, Still, The DSM-V, There, This
related to Symbols · 16
BDSM → BD, Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, DS, Masochism, One, Ring, Sadism, SM, Story, Submission, The, The BDSM Emblem Project, They, Various

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BDSMB&D, B/D, or BDBondage and discipline1.00infobox
BDSMBottom/submissivePartner who receives or is controlled1.00infobox
BDSMD&s, D/s, or DsDominance and submission1.00infobox
BDSMS&M, S/M, or SMSadism and masochism1.00infobox
BDSMSwitchSwitches between roles1.00infobox
BDSMTop/dominantPartner who performs or controls the activity1.00infobox
BDSMis avariety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage0.90text
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and don'tinstance ofWords0.80text
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household choresinstance ofeven when the top was doing non-dominant activities0.80text

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